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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Inhabitants of St Neots. King or Chancellor. Letter from the inhabitants of St Neots...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/191/9524
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/191/9524
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1311]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Inhabitants of St Neots.
- Addressees
- King or Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Letter from the inhabitants of St Neots to the King or Chancellor, stating that they have received a writ requesting a further three men for service in Scotland, beyond the man already requested from them according to the grant made by the community of the realm in the last parliament, but that their town is poor and rural, without the liberties of the larger boroughs which have been asked to contribute, and cannot find even the one man already asked for without great difficulty; and that a further demand has come for four hundred men from Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, and four of these have been demanded from St Neots. They ask to be excused.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- St Neots, Huntingdonshire
- Scotland
- Cambridgeshire.
- People mentioned
- Prior of St Neots.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the Thursday after Sts Peter and Paul (29 June), but the year is not given. Tentatively dated to 1311, with reference to Parliamentary Writs, II:i pp.60 (dated 20 May 1311) and 67 (dated 5 July 1311). The Thursday after Peter and Paul in that year would be 1 July; but other similar demands were made in other years, so the dating must remain very tentative.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295408/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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